Today was a bg day for the home front. Our beloved trampoline is finding a. new home with  our friend Chelsea and her family.. this thing has been used by countless kids and adults.. it was often where I took calls during covid (falling asleep soemtimes in the middle) . we’ll miss it.. but it’ll sire be easier to mow now.   You can even see the tramp from space 

I had a great surprise today. .my old freind Igor called me out of the blue. Igor and I were good freinds back at IBM … he left and eventually ended up beign the VP in charge of Hardware development  at Groq. .. which was just sold (acutally licensed) to Nvidia.. He came in to work and I got to show him around a little.. nd got to intorduce him to soem of my freinds. He’s one of the best HW engineers i’ve evenr met.. I knew he’d love BETA !

Speakign of Hardware.. I had to do some hardware and softare rework on the remote controlled candy dispenser I made for D2.. .. turns out that the MQTT broker I was using went down.. 

THis thig is currently hooked up to Jira.. so that when we close an issue, it dispences M&M’s.. i’m going to link it to gitlab now..

I took these pics in order to post it in pour #show-and-tell slack channel at work. People here are so creative and crafty..  people are posting amazing projects all the tim e 

thats it for today.. 

nite all. nite sam
-me

WOke early at Ruchir and Rashis’.. Found this picture someone had painted  of Ruchir.. totally captures the his warm and joyful spirit !

drive back up to VT was fun.. listening to a good audio book. ‘The song of the Cell’ by Sidartha Mukherjee. 

Lots of fun and interesting  technical   work goign on at BETA for me now.. but luckily.. tehre’s still soem time for pure fun. Here i’m helping my freinds Ryan and Eliout with their idea for a lite bright for BETA

Tonight was a great youga class.. really feeling like sprng finally. 

nice to be home

nite all. nite sam
-me

Woke today at Ruchir and Rashis.. we had a delicious breakfast of idli and kitcheree.. Rashi reminds me so much of Diane..  Ruchir and I are both such lucky guys 

Ruxchir and Rashi have a beautiful home.. and its full of love . 

we headed to YKY.. always makes me feel good driving up to thia place..  So many smart people in such an interesting space 

Ran into some old freinds .. Bhavna and I worked together on soem of the most fun projects I ever did 

I always loved the mix here.. one door might hide a pristinge offfice with books and awards, the next would be a mad scientist’s desk, the next maybe a laboratory 

great day of meetings.. saw so many old freinds . the topic was fascinating.. too.. bringing new technology to bear on ‘old’ problems.. lots of creative energy in the room !

We left as the sun had just set.. such a. beutiful areas

then back for one more night at Ruchir and Rashis.. my plan is to leave at 6AM tomorrow to get back to work

great day. – I still feel like part of ibm 

nite all, nite sam
-me

Interesting travel day… We started with a hike and I managed to get a really bad tick bite. But I wanna go into the details, but this guy was pretty far under my skin. I had to do a little bit of surgery to get him out and given it was a Sunday I wasn’t quite sure how this was gonna work out, but I was able to call our doctors answering service and was able to get the anti-lyme antibiotic before I left on my trip

I got on the road at about 1230 and drove down to Chappaqua to meet up with my friends Rich, and Rashi. Richard is a dear old friend.. And technically, he’s my boss and my Ibm emeritus role. Above all things he’s a brilliant and kind and creative and fun person. Rashi is also beautiful, wise and fun to talk to. I got to their house around 6:30 and rossi had made richard’s favorite food.: Idly.. They are rice and white lentil buns that you cover in sambar.. Which is like a spicy lentil goo. So basically it’s lentils on lentils. I love it. It’s very commonly eaten at southern India for breakfast but I agree. It’s great for dinner.

Rashi is such a wonderful cook.!

We had a really wonderful time talking about life, kids, food, politics, AI… You name it. It was great !

at the end of the night Ruchir and Rashi were lettign me stay in their daughter Isha’s room (last time id stayed in their other daughter Anika’s room ). Isha is finishing up her PhD in computer science at MIT and Anika is a Senior there..  so their room were free !

today we also got this great picture of Gabe and Mya in Bamberg !..  So nice to seem them  having a great time together !

TOmorrow i’m going to an IBM Internal conference that Ruchir is organizing. I’m very excited about the topic and I’m also very excited about seeing so many old friends

nite all, nite sam
-me